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Nor need the modalist declare all the remaining god-candidates to be distinct modes; rather, two or more may be identified with each other.

Trinity Tuggy, Dale 2009

This sort of modalist simply identifies God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Trinity Tuggy, Dale 2009

These possibilities, envisioned by 17th century philosophers, have not been carefully applied or adapted to modalist Trinity theories by theologians.

Trinity Tuggy, Dale 2009

Carried to an extreme, one may be a modalist without saying that any of the four are modes.

Trinity Tuggy, Dale 2009

It accounts for mathematical truth in terms of the operations of a possible but non-actual ideal agent, and thus falls under the heading of modalist philosophies of mathematics.

Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics Paseau, Alexander 2008

At the time, Lifeway was rapidly selling The Shack, which heretically misrepresents the Trinity, presenting God from the viewpoint of a modalist.

BagOfNothing.com 2009

“thin” modes saddle a trinitarian modalist with the biblical difficulties noted above, whereas metaphysically

Trinity Tuggy, Dale 2009

Much twentieth century theological literature on the Trinity derives from the influential work of theologians Karl Barth (1886 “ 1968) and Karl Rahner (1904 “ 84), both of whom endorse Trinity theories widely criticized as modalist or close to it.

Trinity Tuggy, Dale 2009

Since a main motivation of modalist trinitarianism is the preservation of monotheism, God ” the god Yahweh of the Hebrew Scriptures ” is normally chosen as primary, although one or more the other three may be held to be numerically identical to him.

Trinity Tuggy, Dale 2009

At the popular level, modalist thinking has a firm beachhead; liturgical statements, song lyrics, and sermons frequently use trinitarian names (“Father”, “Son”,

Trinity Tuggy, Dale 2009